Ah on this sunday night, inside the mission. New details about the failed rescue of an american hostage. Were learning just how quickly the raid was put together and what may have caused it to go wrong. Targeted. Was an American Mother murdered overseas because she was a westerner. Tonight what her former husband is telling us about the attack and the children she leaves behind. Royal welcome. Prince william and duchess kate arrive in new york for the threeday visit. What is in store and who is missing from their whirlwind trip. And Polar Express. Nonstop service to the north pole for a group of children who can use some holiday cheer. From nbc world news headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. It is a circumstance the white house said under the dire circumstances was a necessary one but with the death of American Photo journalist luke somers after a failed attempt to rescue him from al qaeda terrorists. Tonight we have more details by the spe
Forever. And you have given me the most precious moment, okay, of my athletic and coaching career. Pretty cool. Thats it for this special report. Fair, balanced and unafraid. Here is greta. This is a fox news alert. U. S. Officials tell fox news they are aware of a video in which isis terrorists claim they have beheaded an american journalist. Fox news chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge joins us. Catherine, what can we report tonight about this. What we have been able to confirm within the last hour is that a very careful analysis is being done by the u. S. Intelligence community to verify the authenticity of this tape. So that will involve a voice analysis, looking at the location, understanding the credibility of the individual who posted this video from isis on to social media. But, more specifically, whether there is anything there that says its a fake. From my experience covering al qaeda now for more than a
decade. These groups do not have a track record of posti
Thank you very much. 1 million. Wow. Thats a big deal. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. That is it for this special report, fair, balanced and unafraid. Greta goes on the record. Charles heads to the game now. You have to see this, the state department producing graphic video showing barbaric acts by this horrible evil isis. How did the state department do that . Well, they say to scare americans from joining isis but critics say it looks more like isis recruitment video. After weeks of blistering criticism president obama finally getting ready to face americans to tell us how he plans to combat isis. The president will address the nation on wednesday. Senator joins us good evening, sir. Greta, good to be with you. A bit of the plan has somehow leaked out from the white house. Your thoughts on what the president is going to say and do . Unfortunately from the beginning of this, we have seen president obama being fundamentally unserious. He dismissed isis at the outset as
It has been a volatile situation in ferguson on and off over the last ten days. More on than off. Since the shooting of 18yearold Michael Brown by a Ferguson Police officer last saturday. Tonight, heading into this tonight, it had felt like a particularly uncertain, perhaps a particularly tense evening in part because today, just after noon time, only about four miles from the spot where Michael Brown was killed, police today killed another young africanamerican man in the st. Louis area. This time it happened in north st. Louis inside the st. Louis city limits, again, four miles from where mike brown was the shot a week and a half ago. Today, this time it was two officers who reportedly fired shots at this young man. They were from the st. Louis Municipal Police tee apartmedep thats city police, not the same police force involved in the Michael Brown shooting or Police Response to the Michael Brown protests. But in this incident today, the young man who was killed is said to have been
Journalist james foley and taped the entire thing for the world to see. Now, regrettably, we will warn the savage terrorists told us they were coming. They told us they would drown us all in blood. They told us they would raise their flag at our white house. And today the threat has now become a reality. One american is now dead. Now earlier the parents of that innocent victim they spoke to reporters about their late son. Lets take a look. Barely recognize our little boy. I mean, he was just he was just a hero. And you know from the videos that his last words were i wish i had more time to see my family. So jim had a big heart. And just i just you know, thats what we shared with president obama. We just pray that jim death can bring our country together. Our thoughts and prayers are with them tonight. Moments later the president briefly interrupted his long Marthas Vineyard vacation to deliver this statement regarding the horrible act of brutality against one american. Jim was taken fr